The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 15:00 EDT

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try to figure out if it's a chip flavor or a drag queen. We're serving it all up wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump. It's Carney's second visit to the Oval Office since becoming Prime Minister. He's there to discuss lowering tariffs on key Canadian sectors. There are areas where we compete, and it's in those areas where we have to come to an agreement that works, but there are more areas where we are stronger together,

and that's what we're focused on, and we're going to get the right deal. Trump says Carney will walk away from this meeting very happy. He praised Carney and his negotiating skills. He's a good man. He does a great job, and he's a tough negotiator. So then what's holding things up? If he's a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't you? Because I want to be a great man, too.

Trump says he'll treat Canada fairly and his. The trade deal with Canada will be comprehensive. U.S. tariffs are hitting the Canadian steel, aluminum, copper, auto and softwood lumber sectors, especially hard. Two leaders of the truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in 2022 will not face any jail time. Chris Barber and Tamara Leach were both found guilty of mischief back in April. Nicole Williams has more on their sentencing. It's a far cry from the sentences Crown attorneys were asking for. They argued Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Leach and Chris.

Barber should face significant jail time for their part in the 2022 protests. It saw truckers from across the country occupy the nation's capital for three weeks in a protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the time. Barbara and Leach were both found guilty of mischief in court six months ago. Barbara also convicted for counseling others to disobey a court order. The judge in this case has now sentenced Barber to a year of house arrest with conditions and six months of probation. As for Leach, she's also received a year of house arrest, followed by three and a half months of probation. Both have been ordered to also do 100 hours of community service. A victory for the dozens of people who showed up in support of Barber and Leach.

Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Ottawa to reverse its decision banning the export of Marine Lands, Baluga Wales. The Ontario theme park says sending its room 30 remaining whales to China was its only option. It's now asked the federal government to pay for their upkeep. Ford says Ottawa needs to offer solutions. It was the federal government that allowed them to bring these whales here. It should be the federal government that allows them to move them to China or other marine areas that will take them. The federal fisheries and oceans minister says marine lands request for money is inappropriate and that Ontario also had a role to play.

Marine Land has warned it would start euthanizing the whale if it doesn't receive cash by today. The families of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas say the nightmare won't end until all of them are home. Memorials across Israel mark two years since Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Nearly 50 of them are believed to remain in Gaza today. Sacha Petrissik reports. Sentimental songs fill hostage square in television. of Eve, the sight of celebrations and heartbreak for two years. Tonight, the crowd is hopeful as hostage families and supporters watch talks in Egypt nervously. Gil Dickman has seen it

before when his cousin was almost released in earlier negotiations. Talks failed and she was murdered. So we know what it means to feel so, so close to her getting back and then losing her forever. We can still lose this. Across Israel, thousands gathered to remember. October 7th, but there are protests to In Jerusalem, they read hostage names in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence. Demanding a deal to end the war, says Joseph Avi Engel. All of us are trying to do something that they will come back.

Hoping they won't have much longer to wait. Sasha Petrosic, CBC News, Tel Aviv. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website. website cbcnews.ca.ca. For cbc news, I'm Mike Miles.